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Last Call: SOTU is coming…
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Gird your loins, it’s the most project car-tastic time of the year. Next week we’ll be rolling out a number of posts updating the status of our wide range of project cars and bikes. If you want to take a trip down memory lane, here’s a link to past SOTU endeavors. Last Call indicates the…
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Buy yourself a rusted Hellcat
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Fancy a Hellcat but none of the stock colors do it for you? Blue Pearl? Yellow Jacket? Plum Crazy Pearl? Four shades of gray? Go Mango? White Knuckle? None of those draw enough attention to your large and loud car? You want something really special? Well, how about this rusted look? There’s a lot of…
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The News for September 7th, 2018
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Welcome to the Hooniverse News! As always, this is a weekly recap of some of the biggest stories in the automotive industry without the fluff or bull. There’s also just a little opinion of mine because I can. This week: Mercedes-Benz reveals first EV from new EQ model range Lister is back with 200 mph Jaguar F-Pace…
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Mystery Car
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The last Mystery Car, which was posted three weeks ago, sorry about that, was correctly identified within an hour. That’s awesome and that’s how this game should be played, players. Congratulations GTXcellent, you are a man among internet car geeks. And you are also, of course, The Person of the Moment! It doesn’t get any better than…
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ZR2 Bison: A boutique off-roader built on solid bones
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I’m a big fan of American Expedition Vehicles and their conversions, especially those in the vein of Hemi-powered Wranglers and the ever-awesome Prospector Ram. Their builds tend to be limited-run or in the style of showcasing add-on modifications but today, in somewhat of a surprise, AEV unveiled a new kind of project, one more mainstream…
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Video: The Best Look We've Ever Had of the Ford T-Drive Engine
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Before it was a humdrum mid-size sedan, the Ford Contour was an angular, bean-shaped concept car on display at the 1991 Chicago Auto Show. Sure, it didn’t have the flash of the Geo Tracker dancers at the same show, but the car had something not seen in an American road car in nearly 40 years:…
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Last Call: Eastbound and Down
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The car, the hat, the ‘stache, and the attitude. All iconic. All worked perfectly for Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds portrayal of the Bandit proved to be a formative movie for many a young car enthusiast. Hell, watching it as a 38 year-old adult leaves me with a strong desire to find a Trans-Am and…
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Groove Life serves up silicone rings with a real-deal no BS warranty
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I take my wedding ring off when I ride my mountain bike. I take my ring off when I work on my car. Other than that, the hoop of titanium stays put on my finger. If I’m ever in a jam and that hand gets caught in something, I’m in for a potentially bad time.…
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Let's play traffic Tetris
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This happened in Warsaw after the traffic signal system went kaput on a busy intersection. I would love to say that because everyone there is tolerant, respectful, and able to easily merge into and out traffic, the busted signal wasn’t an issue. But I can’t say that. Everyone, including buses, trams and ambulances decided that…
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Cop this armored-up all-wheel-drive Dodge Charger Hellcat
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I’ve always been oddly attracted to the police version of random vehicles. A perfect modern daily driver in my eyes? It would be a Caprice or full pursuit-spec Explorer. Or the Dodge Charger Hellcat modified by Armormax for police pursuit duty. According to MotorAuthority, Armormax has taken the 707-horsepower Hellcat and converted it to wear…
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Let's take a moment to appreciate Volvo Trucks
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Every other automotive marketing team on this planet needs to pay attention to what Volvo Trucks is doing. I find myself excited to see the latest video that the Volvo team cooks up. It all started when Jean-Claude Van Damme stood atop two trucks and proceeded to perform the greatest split of all time. All…
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Review: 2018 Ford F-150 “Lightning Tribute”
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It was almost exactly a year ago that a Ford dealership in west Georgia broke the internet with a simple but fun tribute to one of the most iconic sport trucks ever made. It started out as a manager’s passion project but ended up becoming bigger than they thought possible, and it practically happened overnight.…
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Hooniverse Asks: Are small repair shops going out of business?
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My friend’s father’s small automotive repair shop and auto body shop, which has been in business for over thirty years, was forced to close down recently. When that happened, I defaulted to the shop I used to go to previously, Hondar House. To my surprise it was also closed. Permanently closed, as google tells me.…
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Last Call: Are you sure that's the right clip?
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Got a bin full of these, but they are never the right size when I break one. #clips #bodywork #mechanic #wrenching #gearhead #garage #projectcar #racecar #lovecars #amazingcars247 A post shared by DIY Auto (@diyautoftw) on Sep 3, 2018 at 11:43am PDT We need to bring back Last Call. This is the end-cap post to…
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24 Hours of Lemons: The Buick is back!
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2018 has been a slow year for our 24 Hours of Lemons east coast team. We missed New Jersey and Thompson, all for various personal reasons mostly from my side. But now my teammates got race hungry and they said that they’re just doing it. Not only that, they decided to do something different. Instead…
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The Dodge Charger Daytona 392: A perfectly simple, silly machine
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How can you not love this simple, silly machine? It’s a pretty basic recipe, but one that I truly enjoy. Take a large V8 engine and have it send power to the rear. Add in room for friends, tremendous noise, comfortable seats, and you have a modern muscle car. That is the Dodge Charger Daytona…